Middle East Quarterly articles from June 2001

Middle East Quarterly archives from June 2001

Asad's Legacy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Asad's Legacy: Syria in Transition. By Eyal Zisser. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 218 pp. $34.95. Zisser has emerged as the leading young Syrian analyst in Israel--a country where they take analysis of Syria very seriously indeed....

Baksheesh Diplomacy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Baksheesh Diplomacy: Secret Negotiations between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II. By Rafael Medoff. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2000. 190 pp. $70 ($35, paper). Medoff has written a dazzling...

The Berbers and the Islamic State.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The Berbers and the Islamic State: The Marinid Experience in Pre-Protectorate Morocco. By Maya Shatzmiller. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 2000. 218 pp. $69.95 ($26.95, paper). Berbers in Algeria usually keep their unhappiness to themselves,...

Crescent and Star.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Crescent and Star: Turkey between Two Worlds. By Stephen Kinzer. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. 272 pp. $20. The title is banal and the prospect of another Timesman's book summing up his stint gives pause. But Kinzer, New York Times...

Middle East Patterns, 3rd Ed.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Middle East Patterns: Places, People and Politics. 3rd edition. By Colbert C. Held. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000. pp. 562. $35, paper. Its title implies a more ambitious book than is actually the case; Middle East Patterns is really...

The Islamists have it wrong.("fundamental" Islam)
June 22, 2001... Western observers, both among the general public and the media, commonly make the mistake of thinking that Islamism (1) is the same as traditional Islam. Even Western researchers describe Islamism as a resurgence of traditional Islam. One...

How did Muslims vote in 2000?(aspects of American Islam)
June 22, 2001... The American Muslim community made itself a visible and vocal presence in the run-up to the election of 2000, as Islamist (or fundamentalist Muslim) figures delivered invocations at both of the major parties' national conventions, a first in both...

Murder on the Brooklyn Bridge.(Aspects of American Islam)
June 22, 2001... On the morning of March 1, 1994, a Lebanese livery cab driver named Rashid Baz opened fire on a van full of Hasidic Jewish boys on the Brooklyn Bridge, killing one and wounding several others. By the next evening, the perpetrator was in police...

Iraq's culture of violence.
June 22, 2001... No Arab people have been so traumatized by dictatorial rule, foreign adventurism, and war as the Iraqis under Saddam Husayn. To a considerable extent, the cause has been the Iraqi regime's failure to build a national identity that includes all...

The mirage of a demilitarized Palestine.
June 22, 2001... The official position of all Israeli governments since the signing of the Oslo accords has been that there is not now, nor will there ever be, a Palestinian army west of the Jordan River, even in the framework of a comprehensive peace deal with...

The Taliban's international ambitions.(Afghanistan: Two Visits to the North)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... A war is taking place in Afghanistan, a country as mentally remote from most Americans as it is geographically distant. Already, this war has claimed American casualties--not directly on Afghanistan's battlefields but indirectly, by terrorists...

The terrorists' encyclopedia.(Afghanistan: Two Visits to the North)
June 22, 2001... Most journalists and American officials who want to see what Usama bin Ladin is doing make trips that begin in Islamabad, Pakistan, and then go to the gateway city of Peshawar. From there, they try to gain access into southern Afghanistan where...

Description of Egypt.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Description of Egypt. By Edward William Lane. Edited by Jason Thompson. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000. 588 pp. $44.50. Lane (1801-76) is one of the greatest of the early orientalists, author of the Manners and Customs of the...

A History of Modern Yemen.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... A History of Modern Yemen. By Paul Dresch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 285 pp. $59.95 ($19.95, paper). Dresch, an Oxford lecturer, retells the twentieth-century history of Yemen with a rare panache, making the usually dry...

The Last Days of Israel.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The Last Days of Israel. By Barry Chamish. Tempe, Arizona: Dandelion, 2001. 160 pp. $16.95, paper. Jews have suffered hugely from the rise of conspiracy theories, most especially Hitler's, so one would think they would know better than to spin...

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate.(Review)
June 22, 2001... One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate. By Tom Segev. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000. 612 pp. $35, paper. Why did the British leave Palestine in 1948? Was it because of a general disintegration of the British...

Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society, and Power.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society, and Power. By David Menashri. London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2001. 356 pp. $26.50, paper. The Iranian Islamic revolution is a paradox wrapped in an enigma: a combination of...

Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran. By Daniel Brumberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 306 pp. $21.00, paper. Can a government be both Islamic and a republic? The question is an important one, remembering that...

Turkey's Relations with the West and the Turkic Republics: The Rise and Fall of the "Turkish Model".(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Turkey's Relations with the West and the Turkic Republics: The Rise and Fall of the "Turkish Model." By Idris Bal. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2000. 232 pp. $69.95. As the term was used a decade ago, Bal explains, "Turkish model" referred to...

Unipolarity and the Middle East.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Unipolarity and the Middle East. By Birthe Hansen. New York: St. Martin's, 2001. 245 pp. $59.95. Non-Americans tend to be more impressed by U.S. power in the post-Cold War era than Americans. The former see unipolarity (a single dominant...

Algeria: "Christianity Is Life".
June 22, 2001... The Islamist campaign of violence in Algeria has turned some Muslims, especially Berbers, away from Islam and toward Christianity, reports the Algiers daily Al-Yawm in late December 2000, as reprinted in Courrier International, January 4-10,...